In the third year of Ming Chenghua, the local officials of a certain place set up a banquet to entertain the inspectors, and when the chips were staggered, they overheard the cries of women. The inspector forgot to socialize and listened carefully to the crying. The local officials were uneasy, not knowing what the inspector intended?
This inspector was surnamed Xing (邢), and at the time served as the Governor of the Southern Prefecture of the Southern Prefecture. One day, he came to Runzhou Capital (present-day Zhenjiang City) for an inspection. Coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the officials of runzhou government set up a banquet and invited musicians to sing songs and celebrate.
Inspector Xing was very happy, and the officials present were all worried, afraid that they would not be able to please the inspector. At this moment, the woman's cry came from nowhere.
The magistrate felt unlucky, and second, he was more afraid of Sweeping Inspector Xing, so he hurriedly sent people out to drink, but was stopped by Inspector Xing. He listened carefully to the woman's cries, while the officials present did not dare to come out and could only listen together with their scalps.
After listening for a while, Inspector Xing sent someone out to check who was crying for what. The people who were sent out quickly returned to report that the owner of a grocery store on the neighboring street had died of a sudden illness and that it was his wife Wang Shi who was crying.
Inspector Xing listened and stopped asking questions, so he continued to toast with the officials. But where do the officials have the heart to drink? Each had his own thoughts, guessing what medicine was sold in the gourd of the patrol. Early the next morning, something went wrong.
At dawn, Inspector Xing asked his cronies to bring Wang Shi, who had been crying last night, to the trial. Wang Shi was quickly taken to the court, and although his eyes were red and swollen, he still could not hide the femininity of women. Inspector Xing did not pity Xiang Xiangyu and asked directly:
How did your husband die? Wang Shi replied that last night she prepared some wine and dishes to spend the festive season with her husband, but she did not want her husband to suddenly suffer a stroke and fall to the ground and die. Inspector Xing then asked: Why don't you ask a doctor for treatment?
Wang Replied that it was not easy for women and Taoists to go out, so they could only ask neighbors to find their husband's relatives, and when they arrived, their husband was already exhausted. Unexpectedly, Inspector Xing was very annoyed when he heard her explanation.
He shouted angrily, nonsense! Your husband was killed by you, so hurry up and summon him truthfully, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin! Hearing such accusations, Wang's face was like ashes, and he cried out for wrongs, begging the inspector to let the relatives of the neighbors and her husband's family testify in court.
Inspector Xing sneered, It seems that you don't see the coffin and don't shed tears. After saying that, he and Qiu Zuo went to the autopsy. He examined it carefully, but he did not see the slightest skin trauma or signs of poisoning. The county clerk was in a cold sweat.
Since the inspector ordered them to come, they must find out something to make a difference. The county clerk could only force him to investigate carefully, and he was so anxious that he could only circle around the corpse, and he really let him find something suspicious.
Only a few flies flew around the dead man's hair bun, and they couldn't drive it away. Inspired, he went up to the bun to look at it, and a large nail appeared at the top of his head, and the nail went deep into the skull. Wang's husband apparently did not die of illness.
In the face of ironclad evidence, Wang Shi was not afraid, and confessed that he could not stand her husband's abuse, so she gave this cruel hand. Inspector Xing was very dissatisfied with Wang's confession.
He thought that a woman who could not get out of the door and did not go out of the door, who had no insight, could possibly come up with such a secret method? Therefore, torture is used to extract a confession, and Wang Shi is required to confess to complicity. But Wang Shi was tortured to death and did not admit it.
Inspector Xing had no choice but to execute Wang according to the law. On the day of the execution, Wang was escorted to the downtown area. Inspector Xing did not go to the prison site, but found a restaurant nearby, and watched everything in the execution ground.
Only to see the people surrounding the execution ground and denouncing Wang's family one after another, and the naughty children threw stones and bricks at her. Everyone was like watching a play, and a man had to squeeze to the front.
I don't know what he said to Wang Shi, only to see Wang Shi nodding his head and revealing a seemingly innocent smile. All this was looked at by Inspector Xing, who was standing on a high place. He said a few words to his cronies and went back.
Not long after Inspector Xing returned to Yamen, his cronies brought the man with him. The man's name is Zhang Cheng, a businessman who comes to Runzhou to do business, and the shop he opens happens to be on the same street as Wang's husband's shop.
Inspector Xing saw Zhang Chengcheng and ordered him to confess his complicity with the Wang clan. Zhang Cheng naturally did not admit it, and the inspector immediately summoned the neighbors. If no one knows, unless they do nothing about it. Zhang Cheng's relationship with Wang's too close was early in the eyes of his neighbors.
Faced with the testimony of his neighbors and harsh punishments, Zhang Cheng had to admit his private affair with Wang. Wang shi once went to his shop to buy silk, and the two met in this way.
Zhang Cheng coveted Wang's style and deliberately teased her with words. Unexpectedly, Wang Shi did not have any shy intentions, and the two of them came and went together privately.
Since making friends with Zhang Cheng, Wang's silk satin has been added to his body and dressed up in flowers. When the husband saw it, he could not avoid hearing the neighbor's discussion, and he was so angry that he punched and kicked Wang. Wang Shi did not want to repent, but instead became more dead to Zhang Cheng, bent on getting rid of her husband.
Zhang Cheng went south and north, and with a lot of knowledge, he instructed Wang to get rid of her husband in such a way. I thought there was no flaw, but unexpectedly I heard the hint from the crying by Inspector Xing.
The loved ones will die, and the living will be saddened by fear of losing their loved ones, and fear will inevitably be revealed in their cries; when the relatives are dead, the cries of the living will be filled with sorrow. Wang's cries were neither mournful nor afraid, so Inspector Xing became suspicious.
When she saw Wang Shi, although her eyes were red and swollen, they did not look like they were crying and swollen, but more like rubbing, and there was indeed no trace of sadness on her face, which further strengthened Inspector Xing's suspicions.
The officials listened to Inspector Xing's explanation and praised him for his discernment and judgment of the case as a god.
@Yu Buliu said that in ancient times, there was zero tolerance for marital infidelity, and the punishment for women was particularly severe, light beheading, heavy is lingchi.
In this story, Wang is eventually sentenced to capital punishment, while Zhang Cheng is hanged. Compared with Wang's thousand knives, Zhang Cheng suffered many sins.
Fortunately, with the progress of the times, such unfair laws were gradually abolished, and now faithful marriages only need moral constraints, and no longer rise to the law. #Reading# #History#
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